Carlo Muratori (Sicily)
Carlo Muratori è fra i più autorevoli e storici cantautori siciliani. Il suo approccio alla musica tradizionale ha fatto scuola in Sicilia e fuori dall’Isola, ed è stato modello di riferimento per la scena musicale folk dagli anni settanta in poi. Durante la sua quarantennale carriera artistica ha alternato sapientemente l’impegno nel recupero di antichi […]
Nufolk Global connection 4et (Europe)
NUFOLK GLOBAL CONNECTIONS (Europe) Nufolk Global Connections rappresenta il futuro della musica tradizionale. Il progetto nasce in Sicilia, nel cuore del Mediterraneo, dall’idea di interpretare il concetto di “tradizione” – quest’ultima molto spesso prigioniera della sua stessa staticità, della propria persistenza ed intrappolata entro schemi e valori espressivi cristallizzati nel tempo – alla luce di una rinnovata […]
Nando Brusco (Calabria)
Nando Brusco si forma nel panorama della musica folk calabrese. Si interessa di poesia dialettale, di musica e danza tradizionale, di antropologia e storia delle tradizioni popolari. L’ aspetto ritmico connesso a questo mondo lo porta a collaborare, sulla fine degli anni ’90, con molteplici formazioni di musica popolare proprio come ballerino. Da questa esperienza […]
Kolonien (Sweden)
Kolonien is a four piece family band from Sweden, reinventing their roots with rich vocal harmonies, and fierce melodies and rhythms. Fiddle-star Anna Möller and her cousins; the brothers Arvid and Erik Rask on guitar and bas, together with their neighbour and percussionist Mischa Grind all grew upwith the traditional folk music deeply embedded in the family. […]
Sicily Folk Orchestra (Sicily)
Sicily Folk Orchestra (SFO) comprises of ten permanent musicians plus guest vocalists. The focus is on Sicily, its rhythms and its songs. Fresh musical arrangements seek to include the sounds of traditional instruments such as the bagpipes, Jew’s harp, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, and the Sicilian friscalettu; combined with and enhanced by more modern sounds like […]
Miramundo (Brazil/Spain/Italy)
The Carioca-Japanese-Portuguese-Italian songwriter, Luiz Murá, left Brazil seeking for the roots and connections of Brazilian music around the world. It was in Barcelona, a Mediterranean city in the middle of the planet, that he found the perfect environment to put at test all his heritage: Moroccan gimbris, Italian singers, Flamenco dancers, Brazilian sambistas, Senegalese djembes, […]
Himmerland (Denmark/Ghana/Sweden)
This is a band of very experienced musicians composing and performing original music from Denmark and beyond. They met while recording the album, “Himmerlandsmelodier”, a project created by the founder of this band, composer and saxophone player Eskil Romme.After a tour to the Faroe Island in 2010, they decided to expand the concept, and they […]
Zomo Tanit (Chile/Italy)
From Italy to Chile … Zomo Tanit “Roots in the sea”The sea has no borders, it is a bridge between worlds.In this sea, three women of different origins met and with their feminine strength they stop a mestizo and migrant music, that unites the south of Italy with South America video THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 h […]
I Beddi (Sicily)
In 2010 i Beddi, musicians of Sicily, win the 11th edition of the Festival of the New Sicilian Song – Trinacria Award – organized by the staff of Antenna Sicilia with the Tarantella blues track. Tarantella Blues is the central piece of the second CD: Siciliazero, which the band premiered on July 9th 2010 in […]
Wild Marmalade (Australia)
Thursday July 26, Il Pigno h 22.00 Wild Marmalade are the world’s original high-energy didgeridoo dance band heralding from the small town Byron Bay, Australia. Fusing the ancient sounds of the didgeridoo with contemporary dance beats, their sound is a meeting of Si’s synth stylee didgeridoo drones with the explosive beats of Matt Goodwin on […]
